Article 540 Federal Labor Law
TITLE ELEVEN. Labor Authorities and Social Services · CHAPTER V. Labor inspection
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 14 May 2026
The Labor Inspection has the following functions:
I.To oversee the compliance with the labor standards;
II.To facilitate technical information and advise the employees and the employers on the most effective manner of complying with the labor standards;
III.To bring to the knowledge of the authority the deficiencies and the violations of the labor standards that it observes in the companies and establishments;
IV.To carry out the studies and collect the data requested of it by the authorities and those it deems convenient to procure the harmony of the relations between employees and employers; and
V.The others conferred on it by the laws.